STEAMER COOMA
ON A REEF. [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. 1 I (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 7. A wireless received late to-night states that the steamer Cooma, with two hundred passengers aboard, hound for Cairns from Sydney is ashore on North Reef, off the Queensland Coast, north of Brisbane, a desolate spot. 1] miles in diameter. There is dirty weather. At 6-30 to-night a radioed S.O.S. was picked up hv two Island steamers and a cargo steamer which expect to reach her to-night- and save the passengers. There is no immediate danger, although the ship is making water.
FURTHER PARTICULARS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) BRISBANE, July S. A message received at Rockhampton that tho steamer Burwali is standing by the Cooma hut owing to a heavy swell the Cooma’s passengers were unable to l>e transferred to her. Most of the passengers are tourists from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, going north for the winter. The Cooma is still bumping badly, hut is making little water.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1926, Page 2
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